Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Graphitic phosphorus coordinated single Fe atoms for hydrogenative transformations

  • Xiangdong Long,
  • Zelong Li,
  • Guang Gao,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Bingsen Zhang,
  • Jun Zhong,
  • Zheng Jiang,
  • Fuwei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17903-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Phosphorus ligands have been extensively used in metal complexes for homogeneous catalysis. Here, the authors broaden this scope to heterogeneous catalysis by preparing a P-coordinated Fe single atom catalyst with excellent catalytic performance in hydrogenative transformations.